The accompanying footage, captured in China, shows the mermaid performing gracefully in front of an audience that included children when the sturgeon briefly sucked her head into its mouth.

DESCRIPTION: Sturgeon have cartilaginous skeletons and a tube-like mouth. In the Kootenai River, they can grow to be larger than 200 pounds. They are gray in color. HABITAT: Kootenai River white ...

There’s also a folk tradition that, in a certain village at the mouth of the Drwęca River, sturgeon were caught in such quantity that their caviar was fed to the local pigs. Sturgeon were fished out ...